What You Should Know Nearly 80% of health plan executives now plan to buy or co-develop AI capabilities with vendors, a sharp reversal from late 2024 when 78% were attempting…
What You Should Know Optura, an enterprise healthcare platform, has announced a $17.5M Series A funding round led by Salesforce Ventures, bringing its total funding to over $25M. The platform…
What You Should Know Signant Health has acquired Ametris (formerly known as ActiGraph) to combine electronic clinical outcome assessment (eCOA) technology with wearable-based digital measurements. Financial details of the acquisition…
As healthcare systems across the U.S. face unprecedented staffing shortages, overworked healthcare professionals are struggling to meet the needs of an ever-growing patient population. The pressure is mounting, and the…
Some states bar professional midwives from attending home births if they don’t have a nursing license. Their advocates say laws to allow midwife licensing would make home birth safer and…
Several states have required their health agencies to take on another job: verifying immigration status among Medicaid recipients and reporting them to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. North Carolina…
Following a recent outbreak of the deadly hantavirus on the cruise ship MV Hondius, KFF Health News editor-at-large and infectious disease doctor CĂ©line Gounder spoke to numerous media outlets about…
Like gas and healthcare prices crowding out other spending, the topic of “AI” can crowd out other issues in our email inboxes, LinkedIn and other social media channels, and local…
What You Should Know 9amHealth has secured $26M in Series B funding led by Define Ventures, bringing new participation from SemperVirens, Catalio Capital Management, and NewHealth Ventures. The platform has…
What You Should Know Physicians across the U.S. are increasingly rethinking how they practice medicine as career pressures mount at every stage, according to the 2026 Locum Tenens Physicians Report…